Daughter of The Revolution - Carmen Aguirre, the Author of, Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, recalls the CIA lead coup d'etat against President Salvador Allende on 9/11, 1973

Daughter of The Revolution - Carmen Aguirre, the Author of, Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, recalls the CIA lead coup d'etat against President Salvador Allende on 9/11, 1973 ( youtube.com )

submitted 2015-09-13T18:29 by salvia_d

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Charlie_Prime 2015-09-13T20:01

The good 'ol days, when the CIA used their nastiness to actually fight Commies instead of helping them like today.

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salvia_d 2015-09-13T18:31

TIL:

What I'm referring to is that shortly before the coup happened, there were other--there were coup attempts. For example, there was a coup attempt in July of 1973, before it was successful on September 11 of 1973. The months leading up to the successful coup, for example Cuba, sent a large shipment of arms to Chile on a boat and basically said, we're giving these to you. We think that you should arm yourselves, because a coup is coming and you're going to all be murdered.

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